The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
ADAM GOPNIKThe light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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